Power plant · Braintree, England, United Kingdom
Cressing Farm, Witham Road - Solar Farm
Cressing Farm, Witham Road - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Braintree, England, United Kingdom, with 13.8 MW of capacity, operated by Eden Renewables.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Braintree (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Cressing Farm Witham Road Cressing, CM77 8PD | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 6 Jun 2025 (permit 24/02673/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Braintree) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 7 Jan 2025 (reference 24/02673/FUL, planning authority Braintree) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 6 Jun 2025 (granted, reference 24/02673/FUL, planning authority Braintree) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Eden Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 13.8 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 40.8 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8373, 0.6129 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Cressing Farm, Witham Road - Solar Farm is the 1,390th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,164th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 13.8 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,390th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,164th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,712th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 10 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 5, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 25 km |
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 34 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.